My dad, UT Brown, opened the station in 1969. It was a classic ranch style, three-bay Shell service station. The station slowly built through the years as the neighborhood grew around us. UT was a fixture of the Springfield community and ran the station as a family-run neighborhood oriented business.

My brothers & I worked at the station throughout our childhood and my mom served as bookkeeper. In 1986, I graduated from the University of Virginia and worked alongside my dad for a year before he retired. We rebuilt the shop the same year as its current configuration. As a second-generation dealer, my brother Doug & I have worked to keep old traditions alive while creating new ones. If you’ve seen the shop at Christmas time you know what I mean.